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...Kestin Hare, who formerly worked at Nigel Cabourn and Margaret Howell, now turns Harris Tweed into workwear gilets and Black Watch tartans into cotton chore jackets (£229)....
...Their manufacture was once a thriving industry in this corner of the City, and St Margaret was where the patten-makers thanked God for their good fortune....
...It was probably 10 or 12 years ago that I bought this indigo denim jacket from Margaret Howell — it seems forever ago....
...The NPG photo was taken by Mayotte Magnus in Busby’s office at Allison & Busby, the publishing house she co-founded in 1967....
...the life of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady, and this new album is her second of 2019, following hard on the heels of The Songs Of Our Native Daughters, on which she reclaimed slave narratives in the company of Allison...
...She became the UK’s youngest publisher, and the first black woman in such a position, when she co-founded Allison & Busby in 1967, and she has spent the entirety of her professional life as an active member...
...Busby, co-founder in 1967 of Allison & Busby and editor of the recent anthology New Daughters of Africa....
...(Allison Pearson, The Telegraph) Hard numbers Brexit countdown: what happens next and what you need to know The FT provides answers to the big questions about Brexit and what happens next....
...The most recent recruit is Booker-prize-winning novelist Marlon James, who is currently penning an epic fantasy trilogy he describes as an “African Game of Thrones”....
...Margaret Hodge, who chairs the committee, said that, given the poor performance of Atos in carrying out work capability assessments for claimants going through the Work Programme, “we would have expected...
...Neither the government nor Atos would reveal the financial terms of the withdrawal but Mike Penning, minister for the disabled, said he was “pleased that Atos will not receive a single penny of compensation...
...Ms Jowell and Margaret Hodge have both criticised Mr Miliband’s plans for a mansion tax. Both are potential Labour candidates for mayor of London, where the levy would fall the hardest....
...Mr Allison said the number would be determined by early next year....
...Margaret is an equal if different maze. Amazingly – all punning intended – it also involves Scorsese....
...Mr O’Connor said April’s G20 summit had “crystallised” debates over police tactics, ranging from the penning-in of protesters and passers-by to the decisions by some officers to remove or hide their identity...
...He was a quintessential cavalier, penning a manual on horsemanship during his Dutch exile....
...Margaret Patel, portfolio manager at Pioneer Investments in Boston, said low bond yields meant stocks remained attractive in spite of their dithering this year....
...MORAL DISORDER by Margaret Atwood Bloomsbury ₤15.99, 272 pages Mercurial Atwood’s latest offering spins autobiography into vividly narrated snapshots that document family life from the 1930s to the present...
...Johannes Pennings, of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, has described some common scenarios for leadership change....
...Where else might one spot Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt tripping over colossal cobbles while Margaret Atwood fingered dresses and geared up for serious bird-watching?...
...Margaret Thatcher’s class war on behalf of the petite bourgeoisie polarised society and political debate....
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